Current projects
RECEIVE THE ASK
Flexible work arrangements: Upskilling organisations and leaders
Strategies to improve Manager-Employee negotiations
This is an opportunity to enhance your managerial skills by learning:
- How to respond and negotiate customised work arrangements with your team members while coming across as both fair and flexible
- How to attract and retain women, mature-age workers and other employees with diverse needs, balancing employee well-being and organisational productivity criteria
- How to shape and bend policy use as opposed to rigid and narrow application of workplace policies
- How to influence sideways, upwards and downwards – which is required in stakeholder management and essential to improving policy design and use
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This workshop is suitable for managers at every level including those who work for government and not-for-profit agencies.
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WORKFORCE ANALYTICS
Making numbers work for you
People drive performance
Modern organisations collect large amounts of data about their most important resource - people. Many times the information is stored in incompatible systems, or in the wrong format, making it hard to access. Therefore, organisations struggle to use the HR data to make sound, evidence based decisions.
CWeX can help your HR team. We have expertise in people issues and research / data skills to:
- Leverage your existing data to best match the key HR concepts
- Identify trends and patterns to support decision making
- Make recommendations to collect better data
Using robust data analysis tools, we can support your decision making. We can identify patterns and time trends related to:
- Employee turnover
- Managerial competencies
- Performance trajectories, and much more...
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- We offer a strategic HR perspective, working with your team to identify sources of high-quality data to explore big-picture HR patterns.
LEADING FOR CHANGE
Making your people more productive, collaborative and happier at work
Developing your leadership capabilities to cope with upcoming challenges
In Australia, 94% of managers believe that leadership is important for their organisational success, but only 8% strongly believe that Australia encourages the development of great leaders. Leaders are usually trained for the past, not for the future.
Our experts provide "evidence-based" recommendations for current and prospective organisational leaders by:
- Producing creative and meaningful research based on academic/organisational partnerships
- Providing leadership workshops and academic experience for managers to promote their leadership skills and career success
- Achieving organisational collaborations and partnerships that build leadership capabilities, innovation, change, and organisational effectiveness
By integrating theory and practice, CWeX can assist organisations to enhance their leadership development programs, including:
- Coaching and mentoring
- Employee engagement surveys
- Team development and effectiveness
- Strategic planning, design, and implementation
- Leader and employee wellbeing
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HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR A CHANGE
Changing Contexts: Impacts on Organisations, Teams, Employees and Clients
Aim
To examine how organisations, teams and individuals should adapt to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace.
About the project
It’s often said that change is the only constant in life. But there is another: the inability of organisations to cope with it. Indeed, global surveys reveal that about 70% of change initiatives fail. And that includes even the most advanced, large-scale change models because human resource management practices and the impact of the social context are usually not adequately considered. more...
RISKY BUSINESS
A Big Data-Theoretic Approach to Quantify Organisational Failure Mechanisms in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Aim
To build social and organisational factors into models of technological system risk in order to better be able to prevent accidents and failures
About the project
What caused the meltdowns at Chernobyl and Fukushima, the deaths of the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle crews, the fatal Bhopal gas leak and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? It is now widely recognised that the culture, climate and leadership of the organisations contributed significantly to these disasters. The social system failed before the hardware did. more...
COMPASSION FATIGUE
The causes, form and remediation of compassion fatigue of personal care workers in aged care
Aim
To understand how compassion fatigue (CF) emerges among personal care workers in residential aged care, the ways that it is experienced, and to identify potential ways of preventing, avoiding, minimising it, and remedying it once it exists.
Summary of the project
Compassion fatigue – the loss of empathy by care givers – is a feature of the caring professions. However, the way that it emerges and is experienced, varies substantially between occupational groups. This study will interview personal care workers in aged care to better understand how these employees experience CF, develop CF, the forms that it takes, and the various organisational and personal ways that it can be resolved.
Contributors
Dr Gerry Treuren (Chief Investigator)
Dr Claire Hutchinson
Dr Danica Liu
Dr Ashlea Bartram